Sun Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sun
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Sun products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sun over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

6 months to
29 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 434 579
Rank change year-on-year +91 +145 -78
Contract jobs citing Sun 3 26 45
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.021% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.048% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 27
10th Percentile £267 £156 £363
25th Percentile £340 £336 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £631
90th Percentile - £750 £697
UK median daily rate £400 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -28.89% -2.17% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £17.65
25th Percentile - - £18.75
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £20.25
90th Percentile - - £25.72
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £19.81 £19.81
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -43.40%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Sun falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,292 10,526 17,738
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 43.17% 44.19% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 6,995 12,229
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.06%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £638
90th Percentile £720 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 246 242
10th Percentile £13.57 £16.56 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £23.38 £20.13
Median hourly rate £28.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.00% +25.00% +61.81%
75th Percentile £51.25 £66.00 £60.93
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.55% +81.82% +10.00%

Sun
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sun as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Sun trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sun.

Sun daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Sun over the 6 months to 29 June 2024.

Sun daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sun.

Sun hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Arabic Language
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) French Language
2 1 (33.33%) German Language
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Help Desk Technician
2 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
2 1 (33.33%) Two-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Ceph
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Pacemaker
1 2 (66.67%) Podman
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Ivanti
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow